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Western Digital Portable 5 TB HDD for use with MacBook
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<blockquote data-quote="sajunky" data-source="post: 1035961" data-attributes="member: 22308"><p>I missed a fact that exFAT is no longer propretary and kept secret. A new Linux kernel has built-in exFAT support (no longer requiring loading unsafe hacked drivers):</p><p></p><p>Credit to Wikipedia. It looks like there are now condition for quick adoption. Disk vendors like WD still have to pay licence fees if they want to ship hard drives formated with exFAT. Not a big problem with formatting the drive on first use, it is quick. For Windows only use I will use NTFS on hard drives and exFAT on USB sticks and SD cards. A reason is a better NTFS recovery from quick removal, but a larger disk writes overhead gives preference to use exFAT on USB sticks and SD cards.</p><p></p><p>BTW, A real file limit is 4gigs, not 2 as stated previously. All my utilities are spliting files in 2GB, it is why it escaped my memory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sajunky, post: 1035961, member: 22308"] I missed a fact that exFAT is no longer propretary and kept secret. A new Linux kernel has built-in exFAT support (no longer requiring loading unsafe hacked drivers): Credit to Wikipedia. It looks like there are now condition for quick adoption. Disk vendors like WD still have to pay licence fees if they want to ship hard drives formated with exFAT. Not a big problem with formatting the drive on first use, it is quick. For Windows only use I will use NTFS on hard drives and exFAT on USB sticks and SD cards. A reason is a better NTFS recovery from quick removal, but a larger disk writes overhead gives preference to use exFAT on USB sticks and SD cards. BTW, A real file limit is 4gigs, not 2 as stated previously. All my utilities are spliting files in 2GB, it is why it escaped my memory. [/QUOTE]
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